Apparatus for raising water.



PATENTBD DEC. 6, 1904.

R. A. WILKBN.

APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1904.

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No. 776,711. PATENTED DEC. 6, 1904.

R. A. WILKEN.

APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER.

APPLIUATION FILED MAY 25, 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 6, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT A. VVILKEN, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA.

APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER.

SPEGIFIGATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,711, dated. December 6, 1904.

Application filed May 25, 1904: Serial No. 209,782. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT A. VVILKEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hammend, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Raising VVater, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for elevating and discharging water, being in the general nature of a centrifugal pump, and has for its object to provide a simple and portable apparatus adapted to readily draw of? water that has accumulated in various situations where its presence is undesirable.

It frequently happens that in connection with open excavations for buildings, open ditches, or trenches where sewer and other pipes are to be laid, and generally analogous situations, bodies of water accumulate which must be gotten rid of before further work can proceed. My invention has for its object to provide an easily-manipulated and readilyportable apparatus for disposing of such accumulations at a minimum expense of time and labor; and to this end my invention consists in a pump of the type referred to possessing the leading characteristics of extensibility or contractibility according to the dis tance from the surface of the ground of the Water to be discharged and capacity for discharging the water in any direction laterally of the pump.

My invention in an approved form is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, where- 1n- Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section, broken away intermediate its length, through the complete apparatus. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the pump-head with the end plate or cap removed. Fig. 3 is a side elevational View of the upper end of the apparatus in a plane at right angles to the plane of Fig. 1 and illustrating its means of angularly-adjustable attachment to its supportingbracket. Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively end and central longitudinal sectional views of a coupling member designed to be employed in an apparatus of considerable length. Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view on the line 6 6 of Fig. 1 viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows; and Fig.

7 is a general elevational view, broken away at several points intermediate its length, of an elongated apparatus employing a plurality of pump-heads disposed tandem.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates as an entirety'the upper casting, which has an axial bore 11 extending part way therethrough and terminating in a lateral branch 12, adapted for connection to a discharge pipe or hose. (Not shown.) The casting 1O terminates at its upper end in a flat rectangular head-plate 13, cut out or notched at its four corners to provide four longitudinallybored integral hinge members 14, disposed at right angles to each other in the same transverse plane. Secured to or cast integral with the head-plate 13 is a four-arm bracket 15, extending upwardly from and coaxial with the casting 10 and terminating in a socketed and centrallyapertured block 15, constituting a support for an upper antifriction journal 16 of a driving shaft 17, which extends axially through the parts described, having'keyed or otherwise secured on its upper end a grooved driving-pulley 18. Seated centrally in the upper face of the head 13 around the shaft 17 and secured to said head in any suitable way, as by screw-bolts 19, embedded in said head, and nuts 20, is a stuffing-box 21, which may be provided with any suitable packing (indicated at 21) to make a water-tight bearing for the shaft 17.

Coupled to the lower end of the casting 10 is a pipe-section 22 of any suitable length, to the lower end of which is suitably coupled the upper end of the conical casing 23 of the pump-head proper. per end has a spider support 23 for the shaft 17, and within said casing, fast on the lower end of the shaft, is mounted a cone-shaped solid piston-head 2 L, annularly spaced from the inner surface of the casing 23 and having on its lower face a series of curved vanes 25. The lower end of the casing 23 is closed by a removable and centrally-apertured end coverplate or cap 26.

27 designates the base-plate, and 28 a lateral extension-plate of a supporting-bracket designed to carry the upper end of the apparatus, with capacity for angular adjustment in a ver- The casing 23 at its up- I tical plane and about its own axis. The two members 27 and 28 are connected and braced by ribs 29, and the outer margin of said plate 28 has a pair of projecting apertured ears or lugs 28, constituting hinge members, adapted to cooperate with any one of the four hinge members 14:, being pivotally connected thereto by means of a removable hinge-pin 30.

The whole apparatus is constructed in such dimensions as to be easily portable from place to place, and in use the angular bracketis secured by its bed-plate 27 to any suitable rigid support adjacent to and above the excavation or other object to be freed from accumulated water. The upper casting 10 is then hinged to said bracket by any one of its four hinges, according to the direction laterally of the pump in which it is desirable or convenient to discharge the water, and the pump-head is lowered into the water. A belt (not shown) operated from any suitable source of power is then applied to the pulley 18 to rapidly rotate the piston-head, whereupon the water is rapidly forced upwardly through the casing 23, pipe 22, and upper casting 10 into the discharge-pipe. The angular adjustability between the upper end of the apparatus and its supporting-bracket enables said apparatus to be secured in operative position at substantially any angle of inclination between the horizontal and the vertical, thus adapting it to a large variety of circumstances wherein the apparatus is conveniently applicable in a corresponding variety of positions.

The principle of the apparatus as hereinabove described is capable of extension to and service in an apparatus designed to elevate water from a considerable depth or at a considerable distance from the point of application of the power. Such an apparatus is illustrated in Fig. 7, wherein are employed a plurality of pump-heads 23, connected up with each other and with the upper discharge and pulley-supporting casting 10 by a series of pipe-sections 22. This construction necessitates a drivingshaft 17 of considerable length, and in order to insure the true and accurate rotation of the latter it requires to berotatably supported at one or more points between its end bearings. In such a case I preferably connect the adjacent ends of two pipesections 22 by means of a coupling-sleeve 31, Figs. 4: and 5, secured to the facing-collars 32, which constitute the ordinary coupling extensions of the pipes 22. This coupling-sleeve 31 carries a spider 33, having a central bearing 34 for the driving-shaft, and the bore of the sleeve 31 is somewhat enlarged relatively to the internal diameter of the pipe-sections in order that the supporting-spider may not constitute an obstruction or tend to restrict the discharging capacity of the apparatus. Ob-

viously as many of these shaft-supporting couphng-sleeves 31 may be interposed as are found desirable or necessary in any glven length of apparatus. By employing pipe-sections and coupling members of uniform dimensions and construction the apparatus as a whole is capable of easy and quick adjustment in point of length to suit different situations in which it is to be employed, while the ready adjustability of the upper casting 10 on the supporting-bracket through the hinge connection described enables the discharge-flow to be directed in whatever direction is found most convenient.

It is evident that the apparatus as hereinabove described and shown in the drawings may be considerably varied in respect to details without altering its principle of operation or lessening any of the benefits or advantages attained thereby, and hence I do not limit the invention to the particular construction shown and described, except to the extent indicated in specific claims.

I claim 1. In an apparatus for raising water, the combination with a rotary piston and pumpcasing, of a discharge-pipe connected with the discharge end of said casing, a piston drivingshaft mounted coaxially in said dischargepipe, a stationary supportingbracket, and means whereby said discharge-pipe is connected to said bracket with capacity for angular adjustment relatively thereto, substantially as described.

2. In an apparatus for raising water, the combination with a rotary piston and pumpcasing, of a discharge-pipe connected with the discharge end of said casing and provided with a lateral discharge, a piston driving-shaft mounted coaxially in said discharge-pipe, and a stationary supporting-bracket to which said discharge-pipe is pivotally connected, said supporting-bracket carrying a hinge member and said discharge-pipe having on its outer end a plurality of hinge members adapted to interchangeably cooperate therewith and disposed at different angles relatively to the plane of said lateral discharge, substantially as described.

3. In an apparatus for raising water, the combination with a rotary piston and pumpcasing, of a discharge-pipe connected with the discharge end of said casing and provided with a lateral discharge, a piston driving-shaft mounted coaxially in said discharge-pipe and extending through the outer end of the latter, means for rotating said driving-shaft applied to its projecting outer end, a stationary supporting-bracket, and means whereby the outer end of said discharge-pipe is hinged to said bracket with capacity for angular adjustment relatively thereto, substantially as described.

4. In an apparatus for raising water, the combination with a rotary piston and pumpcasing, of a discharge-pipe connected with the discharge end of said casing and provided with a lateral discharge, a-piston driving-shaft mounted coaxially in said discharge-pipe, and

members interposed between adjacent sections each carrying an intermediate support for said piston driving-shaft, mcans'on the outer end of said shaft for imparting rotation thereto, a stationary supporting-bracket, and means whereby the dischargepipe is connected to said supporting-bracket with capacity for angular adjustment about its own longitudinal axis and also angular adjustment relatively to said bracket, substantially as described.

ROBERT A. WILKEN.

Witnesses SAMUEL N. POND, FREDERICK O. Goonwm. 

